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Oral frailty is associated with mortality independently of physical and psychological frailty among older adults

Experimental Gerontology
Background: Although oral frailty is independently associated with an increased risk of mortality, evidence for the usefulness of screening tools for oral frailty is less than that for physical frailty screening tools.
Daiki Watanabe, Tsukasa Yoshida, Yuya Watanabe, Keiichi Yokoyama, Yosuke Yamada, Takeshi Kikutani, Mitsuyoshi Yoshida, Motohiko Miyachi, Misaka Kimura   +8 more
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Association of the Oral Frailty Index-8 With the Diagnosis and Results of Oral Hypofunction Testing

Journal of Oral Rehabilitation
ABSTRACT Background Oral frailty is associated with physical frailty and the risk of requiring nursing care and death in older people. The Oral Frailty Index‐8 (OFI‐8) was developed for self‐assessment of oral frailty, assuming that high‐risk patients will visit a dentist for oral hypofunction ...
Junichi Furuya, Yukiko Hatanaka
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Oral frailty and its influencing factors in elderly patients with multimorbidity: a cross-sectional study [PDF]

BMC Oral Health
Objectives This study aims to investigate the prevalence and influencing factors of oral frailty among elderly patients with multimorbidity. Design A cross-sectional study.
Xingxin Wang, Lin Xu, Yun Wang, Meifang Zhou, Xin Zhou, Yun Guo, Kaiyue Zhi, Yun Wang   +7 more
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Oral Frailty Index-8 (OFI-8) in Healthy Community-Dwelling Older Adults: Factor Structure and Association With Appetite, Muscle Health, Falls, Physical Function, Mood, and Quality of Life. [PDF]

Geriatr Gerontol Int
ABSTRACT Background and Aims The oral frailty index‐8 (OFI‐8) is a measure of oral frailty to identify impaired oral function. However, its validity and associations with health outcomes remain unclear.
Hernandez HHC, Lim C, Lim JP, Chia JQ, Ang KY, Yeo A, Tan CN, Lim WS, Chew J.   +8 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Latent class analysis of oral frailty among community-dwelling older adults: functional profiles and associated factors [PDF]

BMC Oral Health
Background Oral frailty, characterized by multidimensional declines in oral function, perception, and behavior, has emerged as an important concern in geriatric oral health. However, population heterogeneity in oral frailty among community-dwelling older
Yulian Li, Qian Zhu, Feng Zheng, Jialing Guo, Feifei Ai, Ga Zhuo   +5 more
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Mediating role of malnutrition in the associations between oral frailty, food insecurity, and depression among rural older adults: an exploratory model-based analysis [PDF]

Frontiers in Public Health
BackgroundDepression is a growing concern among rural older adults and is associated with factors such as oral frailty and food insecurity, with malnutrition possibly contributing to these associations.
Nurhayat Tugra Ulema
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Influencing factors of oral frailty in elderly patients with head and neck cancer: a multicenter, cross-sectional study [PDF]

BMC Oral Health
Objectives This study aimed to investigate the current situation of oral frailty (OF) in elderly patients with head and neck cancer (HNC) in China and analyse its influencing factors.
Xue Qin, Rui Lin, Ping Liu, Qingyue Yang, Hua Tao, Ziling Huang, Ting Zhang, Sha Zhou, Yue Wu, Haixia Feng   +9 more
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The impact of self-management ability on oral frailty in older adults with hypertension: the chain mediating role of anxiety and nutritional status [PDF]

Frontiers in Medicine
BackgroundThe incidence of oral frailty among older hypertensive adults is as high as 61.5%, which is mainly characterized by impairments in oral functions such as chewing and speech, which in turn increases the risk of adverse outcomes, and mortality ...
Min Xu, Min Xu, Xu Zhang, Chernor Sulaiman Bah, Yue Yuan, Yan Wang, Chenjian Zhao, Changke Ma, Zexiang Bao, Zexiang Bao   +9 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Oral frailty and its influencing factors in patients with cancer undergoing chemotherapy: a cross-sectional study

BMC Oral Health
Background Oral frailty is one of the easily overlooked complications in patients with cancer, which is as important as dietary dysfunction, malnutrition and other complications. However, limited research exists on the factors influencing oral frailty in
Fangyi Li, Tian Xiao, Xueqin Qiu, Chunmei Liu, Qiumei Ma, Dongmei Yu, Linyu Zhou, Ruihan Xiao, Biao He, Ao Tang, Xiaoju Chen   +10 more
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Influencing factors of oral frailty in elderly patients with type 2 diabetes in China: a cross-sectional study based on the integral model of frailty

BMC Oral Health
Objectives This study aimed to investigate the current status and influencing factors of oral frailty in elderly patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus to inform the development of oral management programs in this population.
Wenyu Luo, Jinfeng Zhou, Lingyu Qiu, Li Zhao   +3 more
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